Order Diprotodontia
Author
Colin P. Groves
text
1993
Smithsonian Institution Press
Washington and London
Editor
Don E. Wilson
Editor
DeeAnn M. Reeder
Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)
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62
book chapter
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Spilocuscus maculatus
Desmarest, 1818
.
Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., Nouv. ed., 25:472
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Indonesia
,
Irian Jaya
, Vogelkop, Manokwari Div., Manokwari
.
DISTRIBUTION: New
Guinea
and adjacent small islands; Aru and Kei Isis, Ceram, Amboina and Selayar Isis (
Indonesia
); Cape York Peninsula (
Queensland
,
Australia
).
STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; but "common" in New
Guinea
(Flannery, 1990).
SYNONYMS:
brevicaudatus
, chrysorrhous, goldiei,
kraemeri
?, nudicaudatus, ochropus, quoy, variegata.
COMMENTS: Commonly cited from "E.
Geoffroy, 1803
. Cat. Mamm. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris., p. 149"; but see comments in Appendix I.
Feiler (1978a)
included
atrimaculatus
in this species, but G. G. George (1979:98) placed it in
rufoniger
.